Sunday 28 June 2009
I Will Be Back Soon... I Promise!
Friday 15 May 2009
The Origin of The Devil - Part I
I’ve been asked by a few of my readers to save the objectionable views on the movie ‘Zeitgeist’, until we have more members to debate the subject, to which I will kindly comply. So, in the mean time, on with the story of my trail!
During my research into the Bible and the roots of the story, I started to switch my attention away from the good entities of the story and began to focus on the bad people – The Devil. I started to discuss the topic with a guy I know, who strongly advised me on reading an article that he had read a while back on the exact same subject.
I was reading it on his iPhone, the article was in four parts and reading it all an iPhone was not the easiest thing to do. I said that I would check it when I got home but he told me ‘No, you seriously have to read it now’. It was little past 00:30, I was tired and we may have been playing chess, I can’t really remember too much detail.
So, he located the article and handed me the phone – I didn’t take me eyes off it! What I read was outstanding information and set me on the next phase of my path, the ancient civilisation and the ‘Origins of Satan’. This is the same article I read that night, taken from a fantastic site called ViewZone.com:
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I've been interested in the devil for some time. I've often blamed him for the bad things that have happened in my life and in the world around me. I thought of him as someone to fear, yet someone whose influence on me is always subject to my own free will. Perhaps you have similar beliefs?
You would not be surprised to learn that the concept of the devil is very much the same around the globe, and has been recognized in just about every culture for the past millennia. Even people who do not have a clear understanding of God, or believe in a heaven or hell, harbor belief in something akin to the personified master of evil.
I would like to take you on an adventure to explore the origins of the devil, but you will have to be responsible for what you will learn. You can treat it as fiction, which it is not, or you can accept it as another odd tale from the internet, which is how I will present it. A third option is for you to be curious enough to see if what I will tell you has any truth to it, which it does. And when you make this discovery on your own, then you may well wish you had not read it at all.
If you are ready, we will begin with what most people consider the oldest book. In the original Genesis, chapter 6, there is the following passage:
The sons of God saw the daughters of man, and that they were good; and they took them for wives, all of which they chose...
The Nefilim were upon the earth in those days, and thereafter also, when the sons of the gods cohabited with the daughters of Adam, and they bore children unto them. They were the might ones of eternity - the people of the shem.
If you check your modern Bible you will find that this original passage has been reduced to a phrase, "There were giants upon the earth," while other translations have left the term "nefilim" intact. The Hebrew origins (N.F.L) of this word mean, literally, "to be cast down." But to gain a more detailed view of the nefilim and their true origins we must go back further than the book of Genesis, to a time that you most likely have never read about in school, or elsewhere.
The truth about the nefilim has been known for many years now. Earlier this century, archaeologists were sifting through mounds of ancient debris in a place called Nippur in what is now Iraq. As they dug deeper, looking for stone artifacts, they hauled countless loads of tiny clay fragments that looked like broken pottery, adorned with designs made of short straight lines. Carelessly piled some distance from the dig, this debris was considered an annoyance and treated with disinterest.
The stone artifacts were surprisingly rare at this particular site but, eventually, one was uncovered that left the archaeologists stunned. Like the famous Rosetta Stone that contained Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Greek, the stone at Nippur contained ancient Mesopotamian as well as a collection of the same straight lines that had decorated the clay debris. Archaeologists then realized that the clay fragments were not useless pottery, but were part of a vast library written on clay tablets in the oldest known human language.
Translating the odd lines was not easy, but persistence eventually won and the archaeologists had their second great surprise. A tablet written in this new language, called cuneiform, described the library as being "very old" and credited its collection to the Mesopotamian king, Ashurbanipal, who lived about 3000 years ago. In his dedication tablet, Ashurbanipal boasts that he could read several old languages, "including the old writing from before the great flood." But before you draw any comparisons to the Biblical stories in Genesis, you must hear the rest of what was found.
